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Mohammed Ali developed his unabashed crush on America while serving as his country's ambassador (1952-53). He picked up U.S. slang, went often to watch the Washington Senators, took to bowling with his embassy staff. He drove around most of the 48 states with his pretty wife and two teen-age sons, collecting American gadgets, idiom and ideas...
...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
Another time, Jones had touse American slang to get out of a tough spot. He and two staffers were covering an Arab nationalist uprising in Tunisia in 1952, when his car was stopped by a large band of Arabs. "After many minutes of trying to convince them that we were les Americains and not Frenchmen, who were being shot at the time, the sheik called for silence, indicated he would give me the test. In complete silence he stuck his wrinkled face up to mine and said, with a look of infinite cunning, the only American word he knew...
...Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when it comes to sing for the Slobos (Finnish slang word for the Russians), and may have a better influence...
...Australia, under the headline CUT IT OUT CHUMS!, the Sydney Daily Telegraph (circ. 310,000) jeered at Fleet Streeters for reporting that the Queen's safety was in danger because of the crowds and the rigors of her tour. Said the Telegraph: "England can disregard these furphies [Australian slang for wild rumors]. The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause them overfatigue due to faulty training. But the Queen, who has been trained for the job, obviously doesn't feel the same strain as apparently besets English journalists puffing...